Wiki Project Med/Mission and goals

Mission Statement

Our purpose is to promote the curation and distribution of medical knowledge through Wikimedia projects, to all people, in their own language, whether or not they have reliable access to the internet.

Program Goals

As medical contributors to the Wikimedia projects we want more contributors, developing higher quality content, that is distributed in more places. This is not just our interest as an organization; it is our interest as Wikimedians.

Key performance indicators (KPIs)

• More contributors:
  • Number of editors working on medical topics, broken down by activity level, language & gender (if possible)l
  • Number of chapters & other affiliates with a Med related program
  • Number of organizational / institutional partners
  • Number of educators partners
  • Number of students participating
  • Rate of conversion of recruited medical professionals to Wikipedia editors. (more than 5 edits a month over 3 months, more than 100 edits a month over 3 months)
• Higher quality content:
  • Number of language editions of Wikipedia that meet basic coverage (stubs on most important subjects)
  • Number of articles that pass professional vetting
• Greater awareness:
  • Number of lectures / outreach events in and outside the Wikimedia Movement
  • Number of participants in lectures / outreach events
  • Number of training sessions
  • Number of participants in training in and outside the Wikimedia Movement
  • Number of related academic articles written
  • Number of blog posts
  • Number of mentions in the press
  • Number of community member in FB group (and other social media), mailing list, members list
• Distributed in more places:
  • How much traffic does our content get, be it media files or Wikipedia articles or whatever else?
  • How many people are accessing our content in different ways, such as the app?
  • How many countries is our content accessed in?
  • How many languages? Distributed in more places

Program ideas

• Developing Resources
  • Development of case studies
  • Development of training materials
  • Development of  intro materials for various stakeholders: Wikipedians, organizations, universities, research centers, GLAMs, etc.
• Strategic partnerships building (outreach & inreach)
  • with professional organizations, including Translators Without Borders, Cochrane, World Health Organization, CDC, research centers and content donors.
  • with universities and medical schools
  • with Wikimedia affiliates (including Wiki Education Program, GLAM, WikWomen & local chapters) and individual volunteers (including software developers & program leaders that can develop Med related programs in their regions)
• Software development
  • Offline Wikipedia app
  • Metrics and gap analysis tools
• Research
  • On undisclosed paid editing
  • Figuring out what is missing from the Wikimedia projects
  • Finding out where exactly we lack in diversity
• Communication, awareness building & advocacy
  • Participation in regional Wikimedia conferences
  • Participation in medical and healthcare conferences
  • Online and offline trainings
  • Online and offline mentoring
  • New contributor recruitment and mentorships, with special focus on underserved communities
  • Multilingual community building & development, including on Wiki, mailing list and social networks
  • Blog posts to appropriate audiences.
• Fundraising

Organizational Goals

The Wiki Project Med Foundation is part of a broader network of Wikimedia volunteers, medical advocacy and educational organizations. To the Wikimedia community, we offer resources for volunteers interested in making exceptional contributions toward our mission. These resources include, potentially, money, time, and access to networks and related materials. The purpose of our organization is to provide more capacity to our medical content contributors than we would have as individuals. To the broader world of medicine, we offer expertise on the inner workings of Wikimedia projects, putting human faces to our online projects. We help translate the latest evidence into high-quality content that is read around the world.

The Wiki Project Med Foundation has significant capacity around the world, but there is more work needed to make the best use of this capacity. Our goal for the next two years is to work on capacity building, including meeting the criteria established for Movement Organizations. Our KPIs for organizational development:

• Number of board and membership meetings (goal is to have at least one board meeting every other month - 6 meetings per year, and one membership meeting per year)
• Number of members and supporters
• Number of donors
• Amount of documentation of our work, including templates for presentations
• Established workflows for basic organizational operations such as elections
• Established policies for governance and financial matters, including processes for synchronous and asynchronous decision-making by the board and members
• Establishment of a planning process
• Recognition as a Wikimedia thematic organization

In making progress toward our organizational development KPIs, it will give us more capacity to support programs that work toward our mission. Part of the board’s work will be conducted via committees, that will also involve participation of other volunteers & members interested in working on a specific topic.